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A UO professor will join researchers from around the globe in an effort to better understand the ice loss happening across Greenland as well as the

Recognizing community partners for their flexibility and adaptation in the face of COVID This year our community partners had to adapt as much as faculty to changed circumstances. They had to go remote with us, offering remote feedback, engagement and activities. They had to consider whether an internship or project could even be done remotely, redesign entire projects and, in some cases, manage COVID protocols and precautions to allow students to participate directly. We conceived of this COVID-era version of our community partner award while debriefing the semester with Mary Val Palum...

2:02 Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have published the most extensive analysis to date on groundwater infrastructure across the globe. Their research calls attention to the high number of wells at risk for running dry, including along the Central Coast. Around the world, billions of people rely on wells for drinking water and crop irrigation, but that reliance is being threatened by changes in groundwater levels. “When wells run dry, people lose access to a water supply to their homes, and people lose access to a reliable source of water to produce crops that...

Rebecca Harhai | April 30, 2021 Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs is now enrolling for a new fully online Master of Sustainability, Security and Resilience program. The program, designed to prepare professionals for unprecedented, climate-based disruptions, will be part of the Environmental Studies Program portfolio.   “Climate change and its impacts are major security threats, affecting supply chains, clean water, infrastructure, financial systems and communities,” Dr. Natalie Kruse, professor and director...

Date Time Professor digs into stories about diversity and equity outdoors UO professor Sarah Wald hasn’t gone down the TikTok rabbit hole, but she’s explored just about every other storytelling medium to examine issues of equity and diversity in outdoor recreation and public land use. Wald, who is affiliated with both the Environmental Studies Program and Department of English, is working on a new research project that will explore how different narratives address inequities and diversity in public land use and outdoor recreation. She’s looking at everything from documentaries about the...